What’s Happening in California’s Oldest City?
Yard Sale Update:
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the yard sale and to our great volunteers for making this such a successful event!
Your support is greatly appreciated.

Help Save the Dancing Pig and have fun doing it!
Participate in our fundraiser on Sunday, February 25, 2018

We launched our campaign to restore and relight the Stephen's Meat Products Dancing Pig sign.
You can help by donating to the Save the Pig fund. Donations may be made at our website: www.preservation.org/pac_donate.html.
Select "Save the Dancing Pig" on the dropdown menu. Any amount will help, and we will match a portion of the funds donated.
We are having an assessment done to determine the costs to repair and maintain the sign.
Thanks for your support and together we will have the pig dancing again!

The National Trust for Historic Preservation PastForward Preservation Conference comes to San Francisco!
From its golden bridges to its painted ladies, San Francisco conjures up distinctive images of landmarks,
architecture, and bohemian culture. At the PastForward conference, iconic San Francisco will be featured --
see a progressive city that is tackling climate change and urban density while maintaining its cultural
landscape and intangible heritage issues that will resonate with preservation practitioners across the country.

Thanks to everyone who attended the Wolfe & Higgins Home Tour.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Thanks also to the chair of the tour, Krista Van Laan and her committee. We also thank the army of volunteers
for their hard work. The tour would not have been the success it was without the extraordinary team work of everyone involved.

Thanks to all of our volunteers and shoppers for making the
PAC*SJ Rummage Sale a successful event!

"It's About
Time" San
Jose Clock Tower Project

PACSJ board member and tireless Clock Tower
spokesman was
recently interviewed about the subject on Channel KMVT, community TV.
View John's interview here.

The movement to restore the Clock Tower
of the San
Jose Museum of Art to its original height is picking up steam.
The clock and the tower of former San Jose Post Office
building were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. The
restoration, begun in 1908, intended to rebuild the original tower was
cut short - A new clock was installed in a shorter tower but the full
restoration of the tower's height was not completed. Check
out why the clock and the tower are so special to the history
of San Jose, and what you can do to get involved.

For eligible purchases at AmazonSmile, the
AmazonSmile
Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to the customer’s
selected charitable organization. PAC-SJ is now an
Amazon Associate. PAC-SJ automatically earns a referral fee
of 0.5% (or higher) on all products, including those sold by
third-party merchants.

Here’s
how it
works:Click this Amazon
link. Select your items and complete your purchases as you
normally would.

Thanks for your support!Help save
the Century
Theater Domes! Sign the Online Petition!!

You may know that the Century Theatres on
Winchester are at
risk of being demolished as the City explores possibilities to
redevelop the site.

Along with our friends at the Retro
Dome/Guggenheim
Entertainment, we have launched an online petition asking our City
leaders to preserve one or all of the Domes and direct the new
developer to incorporate the Dome(s) into any proposed development.

Sign the petition now: Watch for
more information as the campaign to Save the Domes moves forward.

Do you want
to learn
about what development is planned for your Council District?

You can sign up for email notifications on the
city web site:

"The City of San Jose is committed to providing
the
information and opportunities to encourage residents and other
interested parties to follow development activity in their community
and to actively participate in the land use development process. To
this end the City offers an email subscription service where by you can
be informed of recently submitted development applications in your
community. if you sign up for this service, you will receive an email
informing you that the Planning Division has received a development or
permit application located within a given geographic area that you
select. This service provides notification on most planning permits. If
you would like to be noticed via email, choose subscribe and it will
take you to the registration process."

OK, Smokey didn't say that.
But PACSJ may
need a fire prevention mascot of its own soon. Help prevent
the loss of even more historic structures to fire and vandalism by
helping the City enforce its Vacant Building Ordinance. File
an online complaint on the City's website.

On the left side under "Online Services" click
on "Submit an
Online Blight Complaint." From there fill out the appropriate
information. If enough people file complaints maybe the City will pay
attention and work harder to protect these historic resources.

San Jose
Public Library
Foundation presents SCAN JOSE - Grab your smartphone to learn about the
history of San Jose!

Explore historical downtown San Jose -
One
smartphone = 3 walking tours! SJPL has created three walking tours of
downtown San Jose that you can take using your smartphone and your
feet! Go to www.scanjose.org
to see images from the California Room Collection while standing at the
locations that the photographs were taken. Think of it as a time
machine in the palm of your hand!

There are three tours to choose from:A Walk Around the Plaza
- takes you on a loop around Plaza de Cesar ChavezTragedies and Calamities
- a no holds barred look at some of the tragic events in San Jose
historyOld Santa Clara Street
- highlights some of the great architecture that has sprung up and come
down over the years.

PAC-SJ is looking for a few qualified applicants
to be
considered for openings on our Board. Help us pursue our mission of
preserving the architectural heritage of San Jose and help educate
homeowners, developers, and decision-makers about the importance of
historic preservation